The bill passed the Senate with bipartisan support in December and was slated to get to the floor during the 112th Congress

Wave after wave of outrage rolled through the House of Representatives, first Tuesday night then Wednesday morning, like the waves crashing against the ruined beaches of Long Island Sound.

The House GOP leadership’s decision not to bring the Senate-passed Sandy supplemental relief aid bill to the floor Tuesday night stunned and angered Northeast legislators on both sides of the aisle. One after the other, they stepped up to podium to fulminate against Speaker John Boehner’s decision.

Some of the loudest protests came from Republicans.

Peter King, the powerful 10-term Congressman from New York, said the conduct of his party’s leadership was “disgraceful, immoral.”

“I was chasing the Speaker all over the House floor (Tuesday night) … He just decided to sneak off in the dead of night,” he raged Wednesday morning.

“”These Republicans have no problem finding New York when they’re out raising millions of dollars. They’re in New York filling their pockets with money from New Yorkers. I’m saying anyone from New York or New Jersey who contributes one penny to Congressional Republicans is out of their mind. Because what they did last night was put a knife in the back of New Yorkers and New Jerseyans. It is an absolute disgrace.”

Inexplicably, the House had time to listen to speaker after speaker decrying the decision not to bring the bill to the floor, but no time to take up the bill.

Boehner would only say through an aide, “The speaker is committed to getting this bill passed this month.”

Government sources said starting over on the bill in the 113th Congress Thursday could delay aid to the region for weeks.

A sample of comments on the floor Wednesday:

Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn.: “A shocking display of neglect.”

Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y.: “An act of spiteful indifference that will go down in history as a low point. Shame on this House,”

Frank LaBiondo, R-New Jersey: This is a disaster on top of a disaster. … we demand nothing less than we have given the rest of the country.”

Gregory Meeks-D-N.Y.: “Walk with me, Mr. Speaker. See the American people who are suffering. We make jokes about the Senate. Well, the Senate stood up and passed the bill.”

To all the disgusting right-wing, conservative
Tea-Party Republicans who want to
“drown government in a bathtub”,
who refuse to govern responsibly,
and who don’t give a damn about the
ordinary people of this great country:
Hey guys, go take a bath yourself- cause you STINK!

The sooner you learn that NONE of the 535 + 1 gives a shit about the "people", the better off you'll be....

It's amazing that the bill was "delayed;" the northeast has the biggest population and is the financial center of the US. The devastation was wide-spread and there are people who are still out of their homes.

What the hell are you upset about, I thought you wanted to be taxed more? I swear Obama is damned if he do, and damned if he do wop a be bop a lop bam boom.

You're off the reservation again. All I'm doing is pointing out what a foolish complaint that is. They didn't get to read the bill on December 31st? Wow maybe they should have ignored all the morons who said slash and burn and actually worked something out.....oh I don't know, years ago?

It's amazing that the bill was "delayed;" the northeast has the biggest population and is the financial center of the US. The devastation was wide-spread and there are people who are still out of their homes.

It's Boehner's Katrina.

I heard earlier that since the repubs were fighting for spending cuts in the "cliff", Boehner didn't want to bring up the additional spending of $60B at the same time.... would of sounded "hypocritical".....

The sooner you learn that NONE of the 535 + 1 gives a shit about the "people", the better off you'll be....

It's amazing that the bill was "delayed;" the northeast has the biggest population and is the financial center of the US. The devastation was wide-spread and there are people who are still out of their homes.

It's Boehner's Katrina.

It is a dem area-blue states mostly. If this were texas, Alabama and Missisipi-you think the repubs would delay the funding??

Real conservatives would recommend a Free market solution: Sandy victims contract as human targets in helicopter hunting tours for billionaires. Oligarchs get to shoot at people amidst the horror and desolation post-Sandy NY/NJ and Sandy survivors get a per diem that may be as high as three figures depending on the deal they Freely negotiate. Win-win.